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5 Jun 2012

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Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Amazon (AIDESEP)

[PDF] Public statement by the Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Amazon – AIDESEP

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Three years ago, the Peruvian State reacted against the Amazonian indigenous struggle with bullets. The result was a senseless violence because at the end of the day, we indigenous people were proven to be right as are the peoples of Cajamarca and Espinar: the laws for privatization and subdividing of indigenous territories and the anti-indigenous forestry law were struck down. This national tragedy left us diverse lessons, some of which have been learned and others forgotten. The current government has ended up reacting the same way, today in Espinar and Cajamarca and previously in Tacna and Paita… We Amazonian indigenous peoples…commemorate with deep reflection this fifth of June. We affirm that we are subjects and never again “objects” of this (bad) “development” which brings “progress” to an elite class and poverty, depredation, and repression to the majority. Our homage is to reiterate the objectives and demands of our Amazonian Plan for Full Life…